Mr. Oliver is the head of the Corporate, Business and Intellectual Property (“IP”) department at Oliver & Grimsley. As the department head, he oversees the firm’s general approach to corporate and business transactions, and resolving IP issues for clients, and works with the other attorneys and the department’s administrative assistant. If you would rather read about his personal story than this bio, see Mike’s personal story – the short version.

The IP department performs all types of IP services – which include patent prosecution (filing patent applications and shepherding them to issuance), freedom to operate opinions, patent and IP counseling and consulting, including novelty and enforceability reviews, trademark prosecution, all forms of inter partes (opposition, cancelation petitions) and ex-parte proceedings (office actions, re-examination requests, letters of protest) before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, copyright registration and consulting services, and all types of IP litigation, for both plaintiffs and defendants throughout the United States.

In Mr. Oliver’s direct practice, he focuses on transactional corporate, business and intellectual property matters – that is, negotiating and reaching a deal on transactions between parties, often that involve IP. Mr. Oliver has extensive experience in contractual negotiations involving software, intellectual property rights, and contracts involving commercialization of other non-tangible rights. These agreements include software licensing, distribution and development agreements, patent license agreements, trademark license agreements – both on an international and intra country basis, teaming agreements, joint venture agreements and medical device development and commercialization agreements, to name a few.

Mr. Oliver also represents technology based clients in corporate transactions, such as asset protection and liability risk reduction structuring, financing, including venture capital lending, equity infusion (exempt securities transactions), mergers and acquisitions, and other types of corporate transactions for technology based companies.

For the last 10 years Mr. Oliver co-taught the course “Engineering Law and Ethics” at the Graduate School of Management Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus (UMBC) – retired in 2017. Mr. Oliver helped design this course for UMBC; it has since become a core course for Engineering Management track candidates at UMBC. In the past, Mr. Oliver has also taught Introduction to Intellectual Property Practice, and Cyberspace Law Seminar at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Mr. Oliver is also a frequent speaker on computer law, the internet, and has given talks and seminars on advertising law and internet web pages, for among other organizations, Glasser Legal Works (NY City), the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA), the Intellectual Property sub-committee of the Business Law Section of the MSBA, the Maryland Institute of Continuing Professional Education for Lawyers (MICPEL), the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI), and the Baltimore County Bar Association.

In his off time Mr. Oliver, a computer programmer since he was about 14, continues to write software programs (principally in Node, Vue, and Laravel), do other geeky things, and play the classical guitar – being a past president of the The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, Inc. – www.bcgs.org

Practice Areas:

Business Transactions

Intellectual Property

Data security and Privacy

GDPR and privacy reviews

Mergers and Acquisitions

Licensing

Admissions

Admitted to the Maryland Bar (1989)

Admitted to the District of Columbia (1991)

Admitted to practice before the United States Federal District Court for the District of Maryland, and the United States Federal District Court for the District of Columbia

Admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Courses & Seminars Taught (partial)

Social Media Marketing Law (presentation given to Marketing Director’s Support Group, Howard County Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau, and the User’s Conference for SiteExecutive, Systems Alliance) (May – November 2011)